Substr + Text + HTML - Problem

Hi, I still have one problem, which seems to be not solveable in a easy and smooth way: I have a text file like this: $text="This is a html extended text<br>which needs to be cut after 100 chars<br>"; Than I do a substring to limit it to only 100 words (teaser-format): $teaser_1=substr($text, 0, 100); $teaser_2="...<a>[click here for more]</a>"; The Output of $teaser_1 will sometimes be like this: "This is a html extended text<br>which needs to be cut after 100 chars<br" The <br> is displayed as <br and not properly closed due to the limitation of 100 chars, and therefore messes up my whole webpage! Is there a way to let the function recognize, if the last part of the string is a unclosed html tag? Does anyone have a idea how to do it? Tried around a couple of things, but nothing worked out yet... Sascha Ragtschaa